“Go Forth and Be Sheep” Says Biologist Moving Bighorns to Hayman Fire Area

courtesy of The Denver Post
by Bruce Finley

A swath of Colorado’s most fire-ravaged forest last week became home to a band of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, a species that has made the best of degraded land before.

State wildlife managers transplanted the nine rams and ewes as part of a new strategy that takes advantage of the 215-square-mile area southwest of Denver left charred and barren by the 2002 Hayman wildfire.

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